Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-24 Thread Geert Janssens
On Sunday 22 November 2009, John Ralls wrote: Both valid points, thanks. I think that the appearance of MacOSX/2.2.9/Readme is a helpful cue to anyone who's spent much time with computers, even if it doesn't actually create a hierarchy on the file system. Both that and MacOSX/2.3.7/Readme are

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-22 Thread Christian Stimming
Two minor points to keep in mind when comparing a Wiki page to a plain HTML file: Am Donnerstag, 19. November 2009 schrieb John Ralls: The wiki page would become the primary; converting it to html is easily done by opening it in the browser and saving it (or downloading it via curl). The

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-22 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 22, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: Two minor points to keep in mind when comparing a Wiki page to a plain HTML file: Am Donnerstag, 19. November 2009 schrieb John Ralls: The wiki page would become the primary; converting it to html is easily done by opening it in the

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us writes: On Nov 18, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: John, How about if you put it into the installer itself so that it pops up when they attempt to install it? There is no installer. You download the dmg (which is a disk image, like an iso), mount

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Fair enough. I'm just trying to think of how to make it available in a way that's NOT a link off to a SF page. Maybe a link to the wiki? I thought that Geert had set it up to be a hosted file (he mentioned osx_readme.phtml being missing

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 19 November 2009, John Ralls wrote: On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Fair enough. I'm just trying to think of how to make it available in a way that's NOT a link off to a SF page. Maybe a link to the wiki? I thought that Geert had set it up to be a hosted file

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 19, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 19 November 2009, John Ralls wrote: On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Fair enough. I'm just trying to think of how to make it available in a way that's NOT a link off to a SF page. Maybe a link to the wiki? I

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 19 November 2009, John Ralls wrote: The wiki page would become the primary; converting it to html is easily done by opening it in the browser and saving it (or downloading it via curl). Not a significant change in effort, really. It has the advantage that it could be easily

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 19, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: Personally I think it would be better in the long run if the files were referring to the release they are written for, so for example: MacOSX/Readme/2.2.9 and MacOSX/Readme/2.3.7 I don't have experience with the SF file manager (I setup

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-18 Thread Derek Atkins
John, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us writes: I can live with any of those options as long as the result is easy for the impatient new user to find and read the file. Yes, it's true that the file is additional release notes, but users generally don't read release notes, and I want the users

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-18 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2009 schrieb Derek Atkins: John, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us writes: I can live with any of those options as long as the result is easy for the impatient new user to find and read the file. Yes, it's true that the file is additional release notes, but users

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-18 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 18, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: John, How about if you put it into the installer itself so that it pops up when they attempt to install it? There is no installer. You download the dmg (which is a disk image, like an iso), mount it (most browsers will do that

Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-16 Thread Geert Janssens
My changes to the website regarding a download section are nearly done. My previous thread left some unanswered questions. Due to the length of the thread, these questions risk being lost, so I decided to create a new thread for each of them. Question 2. Where to fetch the Mac OS X Readme file

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-16 Thread Christian Stimming
Zitat von Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be: Question 2. Where to fetch the Mac OS X Readme file ? Different solutions I see: * Leave it as is, just live with the redirect. * Setup a Release notes section in wiki, store all release relevant information (release notes, changelog, readmes)

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-16 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 16, 2009, at 5:19 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: ... Question 2. Where to fetch the Mac OS X Readme file ? This file is currently hosted on sourceforge and the www.gnucash.org website links to it there. However, due to the sourceforge website works, it will first show a download page